Podgorica, Day One
It's been a while since I've posted here, but I'd like to get back to updating LJ regularly. We've just (as in, yesterday) moved to Podgorica, Montenegro, so now is as good a time as any.
I don't have my computer yet, so I can only put pictures up on Facebook and Flickr from my phone (which, currently, has no cell connection, but that is for another story...), but once we get all our stuff, I'll start posting those photos here as well.
For now, yesterday's update:
*****
It's late, and we're tired. Bill didn't sleep at all on the plane, and I managed to sleep only about two hours. So just some quick observations:
1. When we order milk for Alex, the waiters ask, "Hot or cold?" And, "would you like sugar in it?"
2. The food is amazing. A lot of slow-roasted meats, and the breads are all fresh-baked in a stone hearth. The salads all have lettuce (which I was afraid would be absent, based on my experience in other Slavic countries).
3. People dress casually, but not sloppily. Not too different from what people in DC wear in summer - just that men's shorts are more fitted, and there's some definite 80s influence in women's tops.
4. There is Russian stuff everywhere! Statues of Pushkin and Vladimir Vysotskyy, signs and ads everywhere in Russian...between the Russian and the English, I really don't even need Serbian to get around.
Bill starts work early in the morning. I don't really know what I'm doing tomorrow - entertaining Alex somehow, I guess, and going to the embassy for check-in stuff in the afternoon.
I don't have my computer yet, so I can only put pictures up on Facebook and Flickr from my phone (which, currently, has no cell connection, but that is for another story...), but once we get all our stuff, I'll start posting those photos here as well.
For now, yesterday's update:
*****
It's late, and we're tired. Bill didn't sleep at all on the plane, and I managed to sleep only about two hours. So just some quick observations:
1. When we order milk for Alex, the waiters ask, "Hot or cold?" And, "would you like sugar in it?"
2. The food is amazing. A lot of slow-roasted meats, and the breads are all fresh-baked in a stone hearth. The salads all have lettuce (which I was afraid would be absent, based on my experience in other Slavic countries).
3. People dress casually, but not sloppily. Not too different from what people in DC wear in summer - just that men's shorts are more fitted, and there's some definite 80s influence in women's tops.
4. There is Russian stuff everywhere! Statues of Pushkin and Vladimir Vysotskyy, signs and ads everywhere in Russian...between the Russian and the English, I really don't even need Serbian to get around.
Bill starts work early in the morning. I don't really know what I'm doing tomorrow - entertaining Alex somehow, I guess, and going to the embassy for check-in stuff in the afternoon.